Template:Did you know nominations/Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors

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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 09:47, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors

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... that Desert Bus requires eight hours of continuous play to gain one point? Source: "You got 1 point for an eight hour shift, and then a guy came in and said, 'Do you want to pull a double shift, Mac?' And then you could drive back to Tucson for another eight hours for another point." (Penn Jillette Discusses Unreleased Sega CD Game; ref #7)
- ALT1: ... that Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, canceled in 1995, was preserved through a review copy? Source: "Last September Frank Cifaldi, the founder of Lost Levels, posted a review of magic/comedy duo Penn and Teller's never-released SegaCD game, Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors. Now Waxy is hosting a torrent of the game" (Penn & Teller SegaCD game unearthed; ref #26) + "last September, Frank Cifaldi (founder of Lost Levels) received a backup CD-ROM made by a fellow videogame writer of a review copy he’d received a decade earlier. He posted extensive screenshots and a review to the Something Awful Forums. He eventually added a torrent, but it’s long since dead. So here’s an active torrent" (Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors from Waxy; ref #25)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Bus Collective

Improved to Good Article status by IceWelder (talk). Self-nominated at 10:42, 15 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Article achieved Good Article status on 13 December. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. QPQ is done. Hooks are interesting and sourced. Primary hook is great. Looks ready to go! Thriley (talk) 20:09, 15 December 2023 (UTC)